distance measurement with GPS

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I use a new device (lenovo p780 android 4.2) and seems there is a problem

On my walking log app, some of them gives wrong results. For example, with sport tracker I walked 1.5 km in 15 min. and the app told me I walked 30 km...
BTW, the problem doesn't occur with all apps, the runkeeper (same device & route) gave me an accurate result.

I understood it's more general problem with many apps and many devices

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I don't use my GPS for walking (with my arthritis, walking 100 feet is a day's outing), and I don't recommend an app I don't use. Try all the free ones and settle on one that's within GPS accuracy (check your GPS from time to time as you walk to see what you're getting - for instance, heavy tree cover reduces the accuracy) and that you like the UI on.

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With my old phone, the most reliable app I found for tracking walking or biking activities was Google's My Tracks It still didn't give me great accuracy on the elevation side, I've moved to a Garmin GPS watch.

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Something that I found helps if you are in a populated area is to turn off the location by wireless networks. I found that there are so many overlapping networks around me that it threw the location way off and will usually bounce me around a whole block. If I turn that feature off it takes longer to get the initial location via GPS but its way more accurate.